Quotes About Art

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.

I am a pretty tough nut, I guess, and I love art as one of the expressions that probably appeals to my softer side that a lot of people would deny I had.

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

Music was my solace, my refuge.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything. I would draw these pictures. I had hundreds of these pictures in a box.

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.

I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far.